Conjure - In War Such Things Happen

Ishmael Reed: lyrics, voice: recitations;
Kip Hanrahan: musical director, voice;
Billy Bang (violin);
Alvin Youngblood Hart (voice, electric guitar);
Fernando Saunders (voice, electric bass);
Anthony Cox (electric bass);
Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez, Robby Ameen,
Dafnis Prieto (trap drums);
Pedro Martinez (voice, congas, percussion);
Richie Flores (congas)
a Reed / Hanrahan composition from 'Bad Mouth'
Recorded in 2005

"Ishmael Reed is the Charlie Parker of American fiction."
- Max Roach

"A huge elevating factor in the sound is Billy Bang's violin, rising like a snake out of the guitar grooves." - Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz